†family Scylacosauridae Broom 1903 (therapsid)
Osteichthyes - Therocephalia - Scylacosauridae
Full reference: R. Broom. 1903. On the Classification of the Theriodonts and their Allies. Report of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science 1:286-294
Parent taxon: Scylacosaurida according to M. F. Ivakhnenko 2011
See also Abdala et al. 2008, Battail and Surkov 2000, Broom 1903 and Tatarinov 2008
Sister taxon: Scylacosuchidae
Subtaxa: Glanosuchus Ictidosaurus Julognathus Scylacosaurinae
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution:
• Permian of the Russian Federation (1 collection), South Africa (7)
Total: 8 collections including 9 occurrences